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SUMMARY:Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please join Robin Becker\, Jan Freeman\, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life\, the natural world\, the challenges of intimacy and loss\, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow\, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. \n \nEllen’s first poetry collection\, WHEN I WAS A GRATEFUL MAMMAL (Headmistress Press) is the 2025 winner of Sappho’s Prize in Poetry. She is the producer and host of “Poet Talk”\, live on Thursdays at 6pm\, on WMUA\, 91.1 FM\, streaming on wmua.org. It is also a podcast on Apple and Spotify. Poet Talk: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/poet-talk-on-wmua/id1844891690 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJan Freeman is the author of Hyena (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)\, Simon Says (Paris Press/Wesleyan University Press)\, Blue Structure (Calypso Editions)\, a chapbook\, Autumn Sequence (Paris Press)\, and a new manuscript\, The Odyssey of Yes and No. She is a 2026 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and many fellowships from MacDowell\, Moulin a Nef\, the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals\, and recently appeared in Brooklyn Rail\, Crab Orchard Review\, Gargoyle\, North American Review\, The Patterson Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Salamander\, Tar River\, and other publications. She directs the MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats. www.janfreeman.net. \n  \n  \nRobin Becker’s ninth collection\, Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems (University of New Mexico Press\, 2026)\, includes work from her previous eight books as well as over twenty new poems. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and the NEA\, and she served as long-term Poetry and Contributing Editor for the Women’s Review of Books. Liberal Arts Research Professor Emerita in English and Women’s Studies at Penn State\, she has had recent poems in The American Poetry Review and the New Yorker.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/threepoetsaug19
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Book Sale,Events for Members,Poetry,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Quite contrary - Contradictions in Poems
DESCRIPTION:How can you inject more ‘oomph’ into your poems\, deepening them with pleasing  contradictions? Poems often thrive on internal tensions that pull the sounds\, images\, and themes  in the poem taut. In this fun\, interactive workshop\, we’ll look at some poems containing  opposing effects or contents\, then create new work that dances on both sides of the fence at once.  \nSaturday\, September 19\, 2026\, 10 – 11:30 a.m. (EST) \nRegister HERE. \nHeidi Williamson is a Writing for Life Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund\, running reading and  writing groups in community and care settings. She teaches for the Poetry School\, Poetry  Society\, National Centre for Writing and The Writing Coach. Her poetry is published by Bloodaxe: Electric Shadow (2011)\, The Print Museum (2016)\, and Return by Minor Road  (2020). Her short fiction has been selected for the Bath Flash Fiction Awards\, Edinburgh True  Flash Awards\, and Fish International Short Story Prize.   \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/quite-contrary-contradictions-in-poems
LOCATION:01060
CATEGORIES:Craft Workshop,Events for Members,Poetry,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Voices for Resistance: Poetry\, Queer Identity\, and Changing the World: A Reading by Jendi Reiter and K.G. Keough-Huff
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Jendi Reiter and Karen (Q) Keough-Huff for an afternoon of poetry and resistance. Jendi will read from their newest book of poetry Introvert Pervert that Denise Duhamel calls\, “politically personal and personally political\, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness.” Q will be reading from her newest books of poetry\, When I was 8 and QBird Speaks\, about life\, childhood\, and falling in love with her wife. \nJendi Reiter is the author of nine books of poetry and prose\, including the poetry collection Introvert Pervert (The Word Works\, 2026) and the novels Two Natures and Origin Story\, both from Saddle Road Press. Recent awards include two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Award\, and the Oscar Wilde Award from Gival Press. Their work explores themes of belonging and becoming\, magic\, queerness\, and family violence. They are the editor of the writing resource site WinningWriters.com. https://www.jendireiter.com/ \nKaren Keough-Huff\, also known as ‘Q’\, is a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Writing Sisters\, a group of BIPOC and LBGTQ+ women writers in western Massachusetts \nQ explains\, “Joining the Writing Sisters and participating in the Guerrera writer zoom sessions hosted by Mydalis Vera has been a life-changing experience for me. I had started personal writing many years ago and had stopped for a little while\, not really knowing what to do with it. I have been writing poetry for many years\, but only recently decided to perform and seek support for my expression. I found the support I needed and have found my writing voice! It has been the most joyous\, challenging\, and positive experience in my writing life. Participation in both groups has helped me to become a better learner\, listener\, mentor\, and writer.” \nQ is the author of the poetry books When I Was 8 \, The QBird Speaks\, as well as the nonfiction books The Viking and The Mayflower and Four Pawed Angels\, and the novel Sarah’s Hope\, as well as many journal and anthology pieces.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/voices-for-resistance-poetry-queer-identity-and-changing-the-world-a-reading-by-jendi-reiter-and-k-g-keough-huff
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Events for Members,Poetry,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Voices for Resistance
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SUMMARY:WriteAngles Writing Conference
DESCRIPTION:Hold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! \nThis year we’re at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th\, 2026.
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LOCATION:Bay Path University\, 588 Longmeadow St\, Longmeadow\, 01106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Craft Workshop,Discussion,Events for Members,Open Mic,Poetry,Services,Straw Dog Event,Submissions & Contests,Workshops,Writing Conference
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